Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Carved Eggs

Since the title of my blog is Eggstraordinary Art, I suppose it is only fitting that I put pictures of my eggs on here well.

This ostrich egg took first place in the experienced filigree category, as well as Best in Show in an international eggshell carving contest  I couldn't begin to calculate how many hours this took.  


It is really hard to photograph, but if you look carefully, you can see that individual jigsaw puzzle pieces were drawn all around the egg and then cut out.  What is left is what would have been the lines of a jigsaw puzzle.  I'm afraid to move it. *grin*

Karen



My very first card

My boss's mother passed away a couple of weeks ago.  This is the sympathy card I made for him.  It's amazing the things you see in pictures that you don't see when you are looking at the actual card.


If you look at the upper left hand corner in the next picture you will see that this paper was actually for a football scrapbook page.  It is sort of an inside joke ... during football season whenever he would call her they would talk football, completely leaving their spouses out of the conversation.  So the football was intentional and, I hoped, almost not noticed.

Karen

Sunday, January 2, 2011

This is my first attempt at a blog so please be patient.  I am an egg artist and the work I do is primarily carving.  As I get to know the world of blogging I will post updates.  If you have any questions about carving eggshells I will be happy to answer them and if I don't know the answer I will try to point you in the right direction.